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Valorization of using agro-food waste as environmentally friendly adsorbents for toxic dye removal from their aqueous contaminated water

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Last updated: 01 Jan 2025

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Physical chemistry

Abstract

In this study, dried watermelon peels (DWP), an appropriate biological adsorbent, were employed to extract Acid Blue 193 (AB193) and Acid Orange 95 (AO95) from their aqueous solutions. These sorbents are affordable, safe for the environment, widely available, and very efficient.. A variety of analysis, such as Scanning electron microscopy (SEM), Energy dispersive spectroscopy (EDX) and Fourier transform infrared (FTIR), have been used to determine the surface physicochemical properties before and after the adsorption process. In general, the characterization investigations showed that the adsorbent chemical structure contained several types of oxygenated functional groups and had a suitable shape for dye removal. Experimental work was done to identify the ideal working conditions, which were 60 min contact time, 0.3 g adsorbent mass, 30 0C, and pH= 3. This range of initial dye concentration was 25-150 ppm., and the percentage of removal reached to 97.99 % and 95.51 % for AB193 and AO95 respectively. The Freundlich model was found to provide a good fit to the data in terms of equilibrium, while the thermodynamic parameters suggested that the process was spontaneous and exothermic in nature. Additionally, kinetic tests showed that the acidic dyes removal rate followed a pseudo-second-order model, indicating that the adsorption was controlled by either intra-particle diffusion or diffusion on the stationary layer covering the adsorbent particles. Finally, the information gathered in this study supported the interest in using agricultural waste products as inexpensive lignocellulosic sorbents that could replace other pricey adsorbents in wastewater treatment.

DOI

10.21608/ejchem.2023.192762.7582

Keywords

Acid Dyes ,Agro-food waste, Bio-sorption, Dried watermelon peels, Water treatment

Authors

First Name

Rania

Last Name

Ahmed

MiddleName

Mohamed

Affiliation

Department of Chemistry, faculty of science, Al-Azhar university (girls) ,Nasr city, Cairo, Egypt

Email

raniaamer845@gmail.com

City

Cairo

Orcid

-

First Name

alshimaa

Last Name

gomaa

MiddleName

hassen

Affiliation

chemistry , science, al-azhar university (girls), nasr city, cairo, egypt

Email

alshimaa@azhar.edu.eg

City

cairo

Orcid

0000-0001-9313-2608

First Name

Asrar

Last Name

Elsayed

MiddleName

Gomaa

Affiliation

Faculty of Science – Al-Azhar University (Girls)

Email

asrargoma@yahoo.com

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-

Orcid

-

First Name

amina

Last Name

elsisi

MiddleName

-

Affiliation

Pro. Of physical chemistry, chemistry department, science faculty (girls), El Azhar university

Email

aminaelsisi.5920@azhar.edu.eg

City

cairo

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-

Volume

66

Article Issue

13

Related Issue

43707

Issue Date

2023-12-01

Receive Date

2023-04-01

Publish Date

2023-12-01

Page Start

893

Page End

905

Print ISSN

0449-2285

Online ISSN

2357-0245

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https://ejchem.journals.ekb.eg/article_299103.html

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299,103

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297

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Egyptian Journal of Chemistry

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https://ejchem.journals.ekb.eg/

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Valorization of using agro-food waste as environmentally friendly adsorbents for toxic dye removal from their aqueous contaminated water

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30 Dec 2024